T he J acksonville M iner 4 Master Earl Pal to Tallowbox Squirrels ORIGIN OF PHRASES to buy needed equipment to further safeguard Jacksonville property during the coming dry months. New additions included one two and one-half gallon soda and acid portable extinguished, one two and one-half gallon foamite type extin­ guisher designed especially for oil and gasoline fires, and one five- gallon grass fire extinguisher. Ar­ rival of ordered equipment is ex­ pected within a few days. The past few weeks the company has been busy burning grass and removing fire hazards about the city. trie refrigerators in use, with an aggregate vulue of over u billion dollars. It now appears that water con­ taining radio-active materials, in- ! stead of being good to drink, and leading to restoration of health, leads to death and the grave. After the death of a prominent steel man of Pittsburgh attributed to radium poisoning resulting from the drink- J ing of water containing radium in J solution, the Columbia university expert on radium poisoning has ex­ pressed that many, many, are sure to die from the same cause. Ra- I dium-charged water has been wide- - ly sold as a cure-all. Capital, mi its broadest sense, is brains, energy, character; lund, machinery, buildings; in a word, whatever contributes to the pro­ duction of things and the creation of conditions necessary to the hap­ piness and higher development of humanity. JAPAN’S SUGAR SCANDAL Big business in Japun is no mor^ honest than it is elsewhere; henc^H^ the discovery that the biggest aug­ ur company in the country has been caught defrauding the gov­ ernment out of $5,000,000 in taxes need cause no surprise. The worst of it is that other prominent poli­ ticians and one newspaper got hold of the facts and milked the com­ pany to the tune of about $800,000 in blackmail before the govern­ RADIUM POISONING FROM ment finally took cognizance of the i DRINKING JUST WATER situation. Official duties on top of Tallow­ box peak must be of considerable import because Master Earl Salt­ marsh came down from the moun­ tain Monday to visit his grand­ mother, Mrs. Dora Saltmarsh, and said he could be gone only a week. The chance to properly observe the Fourth at the far away look­ out was pretty small, so Earl both began and concluded the day’s events in firing the shotgun early in the morning. In telling about his unusual habitude on the peak Earl said he cannot roam far from the house to play on account of snakes. However, he has two squir­ rels tied up for companions, and often times they come in the house and eat. At the present he is busy helping his uncle with farm work, catching moles as a side line. Earl’s little sister, Hazel, also came down from the family pos.t and is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Manke, east of Jacksonville. AUCTION SALES WILL FEATURE GATHERINGS Subscribe for The Miner today. ¡¡a A I 1 À ___________ Public auction sales each Satur­ day evening from 7 to 8 o’clock, according to Franklin Sparrow, Solid Rock mission organizer, will be held in the mission hall, former­ ly the Table Rock saloon. Proceeds are to be used to pay for equip­ ment, books, seats and the installa- [ tion of electricity, he explained. There will be no more street meetings, it was announced, but both Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon services w-ill be held. | Text for the night session this week will be “Touch Not Mine Anointed; Do My Prophets No Harm.” Sunday afternoon text to be delivered at 2:30 will be “Ven­ EDI CATION COMPULSORY geance Belongs to Me; I Will Re­ U N E M P L O Y E D G E R M A N S pay, Sayeth the Lord.” Sparrow asks that all who can donate ar­ In Germany they have the sen­ ticles to the auction will please sible rule that all unemployed boys drop them off Saturday, as there under 18 must attend classes in will be someone at the mission hall manual training, typing, stenogra­ all day. phy, domestic science, general edu­ cational subjects, gymnastics and • Rev. D. D. Randall, Sunday- hygiene. Unemployed girls are school missionary from Medford, given instruction in kindergarten held services at the Watkins school work, nursing and sewing. house Sunday, following the Sun­ day school period. ROAD DEATHS IN BRITAIN LARGEST SPRING IN WORLD “Getting on your high horse” is the expression explained in the above illustration, posed by Rumble Seat and a local damsel and snapped by­ Verne Shangle, staff photog­ rapher. It will now !><• plain why people are so willing to “go on a high horse,” you bet. This is but one of The Miner’s extension courses in higher mathematics, or is it figures. Wakulla spring, Florida, 186 feet deep and so crystal clear that a penny can be seen on its bottom, is said to be the largest single fresh water spring in the world. It is believed to be fed by an under­ ground river which periodically drains Lake Jackson, Ga. This lake, 10 miles long, has an uncanny habit of disappearing and reap­ pearing, but Wakulla spring goes i on forever. The Wakulla river is a broad stream flowing from Wa­ kulla spring to the Gulf of Mexico. Beekmans Gives $100 to Firemen REFRIGERATO SALES GROW Ben B. Beekman, son of Jackson­ ville’s famous C. C. Beekman and now a resident of Portland, to­ gether with his sister, Carrie Beekman of this city, this week presented Ray Wilson, chief of the Jacksonville fire company, a check for $100, to be spent at the dis­ Subscribe for The Miner today. Britain is disturbed because cretion of the volunteers. The sum was offered not only there have been 45,000 road deaths as an appreciation for prompt in the country within the past 10 Suits Cleaned and years, and the matter has been ! safeguard when the old home was Pressed brought up in the house of com­ j endangered by a burning flue, but mons to see if something cannot also as a small part of their ever­ be done to reduce the loss. In present interest and help for the America we are now sacrificing I community. The donation is not the 30,'¿00 persons a year to the speed first ever received by local organi­ zations. demon. Ben B. Beekman returned north early this week and several days LIBERTY BOND SALESMEN Ladies Dresses Cleaned The salesmen of liberty bonds visit here attending to affairs of $ 1 up who bullyragged the American the old bank and visiting w-ith his people into parting with hundreds sister and many friends. At the regular monthly meeting of millions of dollars (more than of the volunteer firemen Wednes­ Next to Isis Theater, Medford 10 billions, all together) to help Europe wage her World war, will day evening of this week a vote of now read witji interest that Britain thanks was taken and a resolution proposes to pay no more of her passed to direct a letter of appre­ solemnly covenanted debt, but has ciation to the Beekman family. A left her American debt out of her large share of the $100 was used budget. 65c Pay’n Takit It’s Always Fair Weather AT Merrick’s MEDFORD The Nat That Put COMFORT in Night Swimming SWIMMING AND DIVING INSTRUCTION Given by Appointment PHONE 1000 CLASSIFIED ADS BREAK MONTE CARLO “The man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo” turned out to be Cent a Word Each Insertion Mr. Hard Times, nobody else. For the first time in history the fa­ mous international gambling joint, LOST—Pair shell-rimmed glasses. Please return to Roger Card. where so many people have been ruined, and where suicides are TOOLS SHARPENED and light everyday matters, has failed to pay blacksmithing, all work guaran­ a dividend. In normal times its teed. See J. S. Fewel, Jackson­ profits run to several million dol­ ville. lars a year. • George Little, museum curator and mineral enthusiast, has been slowly and steadily recovering from a partial stroke suffered a few days ago. Although Little is still abed, he is recovering his fac­ ulties and is able to sit up and re­ ceive company, which information will cheer his many friends throughout this section. George, who is 71 and has been suffering of late, is blessed with a disposi­ tion that refuses to let go and which promises to bring him safely through his present crisis. THE Jacksonville Exchange Antiques—New and Used Furniture ELECTRIC FANS—CAR WASHING BRUSH—CLUTCHES AUTOMOBILE LENS WHEELER & WILSON No. 9 SEWING MACHINE HEAD SINGER ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINE COAL OIL STOVE (PERFECTION) GOOD AS NEW Pest Office Box 61 In 1925 there were sales of less than 100,000 electrical refrigerat­ ors; in 1926 there were 260,000; in 1927 there were 390,000; in 1928 tlierv were 560.O00; in 1M9 there were 650,000; in 1930 there were 850,000; and in the year 1931 there were 965 000 sales. It is estimated that there are no# 3,965,000 elec- I il — Sunday, Monday, Tuesday July 10-11-12 RED HEADED WOMAN’ with JEAN HARLOW ( HESTER MORRIS N_______________________________ Wed., lhursM July 13-11 V» “Week Ends Only with JOAN BENNETT BEN LYON Also—On the Stage: Medford Theatre Players in George Ade’s Domestic Farce “SPEAKI Nt! TO FATHER” Nites, Hol Sun. Mats. Now is the time for all Good Men* to come to the aid of their newspaper ★ Meaning men and their families who want home-town news as only T he M iner prints it. ROXY THEATRE—MEDFORD Friday, July 8 “No O ne M an ” Carole Lombard—Paul Lukas Saturday, July 9 “Virtuous Husbands” Elliott Nugent—Jean Arthur Sun., Mon., July 10-11 SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Join the rapidly swelling list of regular readers ‘Dancers in the Dark' Miriam Hopkins—Jack Oakie Tues., Wed., July 12-13 “G uilty H ands ” with Lionel Barrymore and Kay Francis Thurso Fri., July 14-15 ONE YEAR ONE DOLLAR Six Months Fifty Cents “W ayward ” Nancy Carrol—Richard Arlen Always a Variety of Shorts Mats.: 1:30—Eves.: 7:00 Continuous Sunday, 1:30-11 Admission 10c-15c Anytime ADDRESS BOX 13«, JACKSONVILLE i